WildArtAfrica News

Video presentation by Daniel Taylor for the ‘Gorilla Gala 2010’ organised by 'Gearing up for Gorillas'.

A wonderful time was had by all attending the Gorilla Gala held at the Carrington House Hotel, Bournemouth, Dorset on Saturday 8th May. Around 150 guests enjoyed the African drumming and the very exotic music of Kasai Masai. Mungo Jerry rounded off the evenings’ entertainment at around 1am.

An auction, silent auction and raffle attracted lots of interest, whilst Ian Redmond gave a compelling after dinner address on gorillas and their crucial role in keeping the tropical forests alive.

 

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Frankfurt, Gemany - During the recent International Year of the Gorilla Symposium, Ian Redmond - Ambassador for the UN Year of the Gorilla - and Princess Odette Maniema Krempin - UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador - signed special editions of Daniel Taylor’s Mountain gorilla and Cross River gorilla art works.

The unique autographed gorilla prints will be auctioned at events that will be organised in 2009 and funds raised from this will be going to gorilla conservation in East and Central Africa.

Vancouver, BC, Canada - The first ever painting of a Cross River gorilla, Africa's most endangered primate, will be unveiled to the public for the first time on 19 October 2008, at the Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Centre, in Langley, BC, Canada.

The author of this unique portrait is Canadian artist Daniel Taylor, who travelled along with his wife Ginette to the jungle of south-western Cameroon's Lebialem Highlands, to learn more about this critically endangered species - with only 250 to 300 individuals left in the wild.

The gorilla stares out searchingly, a slight quiver on its lip, as it folds its fingers and holds its own hands. The image is strikingly real. But it's also a painting. Coquitlam resident Daniel Taylor worked for months, painstakingly recreating the critically threatened primate he encountered in Cameroon last year.

What he was painting were the very things that have led to the animal's near-extinction: the Cross River gorilla is the most critically endangered gorilla in the world - suffering from a shrinking habitat and poaching for its head and hands, which are valued as totems - but few are aware of its plight.

Tracking the extremely elusive and endangered Cross River gorilla is an activity best done in silence. Daniel Taylor and his wife, Ginette, barely spoke as they took careful steps over treacherous ground in the jungle of southwestern Cameroon's Lebialem Highlands.